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Interesting Game Boy/chipmusic releases seem quite few and far between these days. Sure, some kids released some technically spectacular EDM/Trance/Bassmicrogenre stuff but they didn’t seem to contain much emotion beyond party hard dudes and they leave me feeling a little cold.

Then I was just cruising the chipmusic.org website and saw that tMt (the mist toggles) had released a new little something on Chippanze. Full of bass atmospheric textures, moody feelings and freaky percussion.

Apparently it’s all about interactions between sounds, waves, ear drums, modulations and adaptations and it aims at physical reactions by attentive listeners.

Yeah. Get stuck in.

You can download a .zip file direct from THIS LINK or go and check out other nice realeases on Chippanze HERE

Considering it’s an electronic form of music, there are still a lot of types of modern electronic music that remain fairly unexplored in a chipmusic way. Sure, there are a few people making popular EDM style stuffs (until it goes out of fashion) but there are very few making freaky techno, electro, acid and other genres I suppose you might bundle under unlikeable terms like IDM, Braindance or analogue and digital.

This new MSX release from Amiga VJ Poke-1,170 on 8bitpeoples fits into this category perfectly with its chrisp electro beats, spooky droneing pads and rumbling FM bass. Perfect 90s nostalgia that sounds like early Autechre and Drexciya, which thats a good thing.

You can download it for free at 8bitpeoples.com
www.8bitpeoples.com/discography/8BP126

Can you measure how chip something is? People don’t even seem to be able to agree on what chip music is anyway, so how can you begin to measure something when you dont even know what you are measuring? Maybe someone could do some graphs with data from Pouet or something.

I don’t know but 8GB can because this is 85/90% with Protracker 2.3 on Amiga. It is maybe a bit vague for me but given the circumstances, what can you do.

Well whatever, this is two great tracks of booty shaking Amiga techno with another techno but maybe a bit more melodic remix from Tom Woxom and a skweee remix from DKSTR.

Another great little something for people who don’t like chipmusic that sounds like unicorns ejaculating rainbows into your ears.

It’s funny how things work, one moment weird internet chip culture hates chipstep, when suddenly, Chibi-Tech, who looks great in a dress and had one of standout tracks on the 8BP050 compilation (even better, it’s on the free bonus disk), appears with a technically impressive EDM NES number and suddenly everyone gets it. While it shows an absurd amount of patience (probably with vibrato commands) it’s fantastic to hear the NES getting in on some heavy growling bass.

Anyway before that happened, Kraettz released Galaxy Whore Recovery Center on Dubstep/Future Garage netlabel Vekta Records. While the old consoles are just as heavily processed as Chibi-tech’s in post production, it takes us to a much more subtle and atmospheric realm with apocalyptic clunks, odd bleeps and droney basslines.

You can download it here

As far as I can tell more and more people seem to be more interested in self releasing on Bandcamp and places like that than netlabels these days. So, rather than rage quitting, I decided that if I can’t release them then I should try and aggregate chipmusic releases that summon the spirit of Kittenrock here with a small review. We are still accepting demos as well.

Anyway, first up is Floating High by Sea64, a squelchy little number that seems to pretty much replace the old 303 with a C64 with delightful results. Apparently it is Seapunk as well and I know that all the kids are down with that because someone that tells Rihanna what to do thinks it is cool.

Most Seapunk just seems to sound a bit like 90s dance music to me but I guess that doesn’t matter much as there was lots of great dance music in the 90s.

Is that a review or sarcasm? I don’t know but this is good music so if you like good music then you can listen to it here:

They have a website as well.